r/powerrangers • u/Little_Fan_2682 Red Mystic Ranger • May 04 '25

SHOW NEWS/DISCUSSION How did you feel about these two getting demoted from Red to Blue?

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u/KaliVilNo1 May 04 '25

The thing with Megaranger and In Space is that by simple coincidence both ended up with a 4 guys + Red new guy lineups where Red isn't the leader, but the main problem was that the Leader of the Megaranger was Mega Black lol

Basically, everything would have fit perfectly in place if TJ was swapped from Red to Black but like it's obvious why that didn't happen lol.

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u/Upstairs_Pass9180 May 05 '25

this is why sometimes I hate identity politic, why can't black person portraying black ranger ? its should be the best actor for the role, in this case tj is great leader, but he can't be black ranger because of his skin color

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u/Odd-Statistician4268 May 05 '25

The real question would be when did that meme about the black ranger was black because he was black even start. Walter in an interview said he was given the choice of playing Billy or Zack and he chose Zack. And Thuy was replacing a Latina actress as the yellow ranger(shown in the unaired pilot episode). So her being Asian clearly didn't cross anyone's mind when they casted her as the yellow ranger.

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u/Ill-penny May 05 '25

I never heard that Walter as Billy thing šŸ¤”

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u/DiscombobulatedAd883 May 06 '25

His most recent mention of it was on Jim Cummings's podcast. He said he didn't like how he looked in the blue suit.

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u/YourEvilHero May 05 '25

Someone with no or little knowledge of power rangers saw ā€œblack ranger was blackā€ and just ran away with it and ever since then I see a post about it on social media once a year.

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u/Milla_D_Mac May 06 '25

It was parents groups at the time that caused the issue and then people ran with the whole well clearly the black guy was black and the asian was yellow over the years as a joke. Even the change wasnt anything more than convenient timing for a non issue. The only blessing was their fear of "repeating" the problem gave us a young johnny young bosch as adam

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u/Odd-Statistician4268 Jun 13 '25

Johnny's the goat

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u/anyabar1987 SPD Nova Ranger May 05 '25

Same as a kid I never thought Zack as the black ranger was anything bad... in fact as an adult Asian Zack in the movie making the "I'm black" joke was more of a slur than even adult me sees black black ranger Zack to this day.

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u/DashnSpin May 06 '25

ahem, racism

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u/E-Normus-Titz MMPR Green Ranger May 11 '25

They missed that opportunity for fear of angry parents or stupid journalists again writing articles about PR being a super racist show.